You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

When Oprah Winfrey wears something, it works out, too. But if someone's having "a moment," that always helps.

Some syllables are swords.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

Style isn’t just about what you wear, it’s about how you live.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.

Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.